mikhail semenov

Science

Dr Mikhail Semenov

Mathematical Modeller

Sustainable Soils and Crops

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Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Tel
+44 (0) 1582 938 395
Email
mikhail.semenov@rothamsted.ac.uk
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Biography

Mikhail is a principal research scientist at Rothamsted Research, specialising in mathematical modelling and computer simulation of agricultural and biological systems. Throughout his career, he has been involved in assessments of climate change impacts on agricultural systems, including impacts on crops, pests and disease. In recognition of this work, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Climate Research in 2008. He is a principal developer of the LARS-WG stochastic weather generator, a computationally inexpensive tool for generation local-scale climate scenarios based on climate projections from global climate models. LARS-WG has been used in more than 75 countries by academics for research and in several universities as an educational tool. Mikhail is a principal developer of the Sirius crop simulation model. He pioneered the use of crop models for designing crop ideotypes for target environments. Sirius is used as a research tool by many scientists to understand crop responses to environmental variations, and by farmers to optimise water and N management. Mikhail is actively involved in international activities on crop model inter-comparison and improvement, such as AgMIP and MACSUR. In 2018, Mikhail was elected as Fellow Member of the European Academy of Sciences for outstanding contribution to science. In 2023, in Reuters list of the world’s top climate scientists, he was ranked #109. He published over 150 refereed papers; his work was cited over 22,500 and his Google h-index is 70.

Strategic Programme

  • Designing Future Wheat (DFW)
  • Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST)

Science Projects

  • FACCE-JPI Knowledge Hub: MASCUR-Partner 25
  • IBM Model Improvement

PhD Projects

  • Improving Modelling of Wheat Responses to High Temperature Stress under Climate Change
  • Understanding the relative impacts of climate change on crop production using data from the Long Term Experiments

Awards

  • 1985 - PhD in Mathematics, Computational Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  • 1981 - First Class Honours degree in Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia

Measures of Esteem

  • 2008 - present - Editor-in-Chief of Climate Research
  • 2016 - present - Editor of Nature Scientific Reports
  • Principal developer of the Sirius wheat simulation model
  • Principal developer of the LARS-WG stochastic weather generator
  • Supervisor/co-supervisor of 10 PhD students